Mr. and Mrs. X, Vol. 1 by Kelly Thompson

I think Gambit and Rogue are incredibly flexible characters - they work in all kinds of scenarios and I’m excited to push on those boundaries a bit.

Can you talk about the types of stories you're interested in telling in this book? Is Mr. Rogue and Gambit's backgrounds mean they’re specially suited for some stories, but their exploits over the years have shown them to be great fits for a variety of genres. In the first arc, they’re going to be under so much pressure – and literally on the run – that they’re not going to have much time to think about that reality – but they will eventually have to confront it. They obviously got married in a flash of spontaneity, maybe not fully thinking about what it means. Certainly a challenge of the book is to set them loose inside this new dynamic – what does it bring out in them that’s good and what’s bad – and how do they react to both those things.

Kelly Thompson: It’s a total dream come true to chart Rogue and Gambit’s new adventures as a married couple. X #1 by Oscar Bazaldua and Frank D'Armata What's it like for you to write a married Rogue and Gambit? Which aspects of their relationship are you initially interested in examining in this series?ĮXCLUSIVE: Art from Mr.

Getting married changes a dynamic between two people in that it makes some things more intense, makes others seem like not such a big deal, and it leads to a whole new set of challenges for those two people to face as individuals and a couple. CBR spoke with Thompson about writing the next stage of Rogue and Gambit’s relationship, the cosmic characters they’ll encounter in the series’ first arc, and the joy of writing Deadpool, who plays a guest starring role in issue #2ĬBR: The big news is that Gambit and Rogue got married in X-Men Gold #30 and are the title characters of Mr. X with an arc that sends their wedded protagonists on an intergalactic honeymoon in the Shi’Ar Empire. Now that the fever of their wedding is over, where do Rogue and Gambit go next? Thompson and artist Oscar Bazaldua will answer that very question this month when they kick off Mr. X Series Launches Out of X-Men Gold’s Wedding

Mr. and Mrs. X, Vol. 1 by Kelly Thompson